Two Users one MacBook, and a huge Itunes Duplicate Library

Hello People,
I´m wondering if anybody knows a better way to make two user share the same itunes library without duplicate it... ´couse My Wife and I become to a point where we decided to have diferent account session... but the topic about the shared content it´s drive me crazy! I Got a MacBook, with very limited H.D space...
Thks for your time!

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6135459&#6135459

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